xiv, 317 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-303) and index

Introduction -- All you need to know about symmetries, matrices, and groups -- A primer on rotations and rotation matrices -- Rotations and angular momentum -- Tensor bases: introduction to spinors -- The bilinear transformation: introduction to SU(2), SU'(2), and rotations. More about spinors -- Rotations and SU(2). The stereographic projection -- Projective representations -- The geometry of rotations -- The topology of rotations -- The spinor representations -- The algebra of rotations: quaternions -- Double groups -- The irreducible representations of SO(3) -- Examples and applications -- Solutions to problems

Legacy 2018

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